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Night Will Fall (15)

Documentary

Researchers discover film footage from World War II that turns out to be a lost documentary shot by Alfred Hitchcock and Sidney Bernstein in 1945 about German concentration camps.

More information on this production is available at www.bfi.org.uk.

The critical consensus

This stuff is heart-stopping, and absolutely compelling, and to review it as a film is obviously meaningless and borderline distasteful.

***(*)(*)Hannah McGill, The List, 15/09/2014

The footage – discoveries made by the Allies in the liberated Nazi camps during 1945 – is graphic, terrible, unforgettable.

****(*)Ali Caterall, Total Film, 15/09/2014

As startling and bleakly compelling as you'd expect from this rare combination of director and subject.

****(*)David Parkinson, Empire Online, 15/09/2014

This is a shocking and moving account of how the Bernstein documentary was shot, edited and shelved.

*****Geoffrey MacNab, The Independent, 18/09/2014

We wouldn't watch it again but we're glad we watched it once.

****(*)Sophie Monks Kaufman, Little White Lies, 18/09/2014

It exposes once again the obscenity of Holocaust denial. This is an extraordinary record. But be warned. Once seen, these images cannot be unseen.

*****Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 18/09/2014

André Singer has produced a worthy companion piece to Sidney Bernstein’s 1945 footage of the German concentration camps.

****(*)Mark Kermode, The Observer, 21/09/2014

The content is harrowing, but also crucial.

****(*)Siobhan Synnot, The Scotsman, 29/09/2014

Where and when?

Edinburgh Filmhouse, Edinburgh from Monday October 20, 2014, until Thursday October 23, 2014. More info: www.filmhousecinema.com

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